There has been continuing uncertainty over the UK government's plans since the legal deadline for restoring the devolved institutions passed last Friday.
The date for another Stormont Assembly election will be confirmed "soon", Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker has said.
"Following that election and regardless of the result, the parties do need to come together to restore the devolved institutions and lead the people of NI through challenging times ahead." He said: "I made it clear that the Irish government's position is that we don’t believe an election at this time is a good thing for Northern Ireland, in the context of the pressures that families and households are facing now, and also in the context of the reality that we’ve had an election only a number of months ago.
It comes after the Loyalist Communities Council, a group representing loyalist paramilitaries, wrote a letter to unionist politicians urging them to make clear that Irish government ministers were not welcome in Northern Ireland. Each week, our Political Reporter Brendan Hughes pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading.
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